One of the removed panels featured images of Richard Allen and Absalom Jones. Both born as enslaved persons, they were ...

Selma's historic civil rights landmark joins four other Black churches receiving funds from the African American Cultural ...

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church has stood at 6th and Lombard Streets for more than 230 years.It is the oldest parcel of land continuously owned by African Americans in the United ...

Natchez unveils Black History Month 2026 events, from youth literacy and church programs to cultural tours, museum exhibits, ...

Philadelphia's Mother Bethel AME Church is one of five African American churches chosen to receive a $1 million grant from ...

Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...

The $5 million in grants, part of the Preserving Black Churches program of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund ...

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has awarded $5 million in grants to five historically Black churches.

The Society Hill church, founded in 1791, is recognized as the nation's first African Methodist Episcopal Church and sits on ...

The Black Church has a long and rich history of providing safe harbor, mutual aid, education, and spiritual guidance to its members, and its founding at Pentecost is considered the most sanctified ...

Union Trinity AME Church, one of Philadelphia’s historic Black religious institutions and known as “The Friendly Church,” was vandalized with racist graffiti over the weekend. Pastor Tianda ...

Allen Richard Finnie, age 83, passed away on December 19, 2025, after a year-long battle with valley fever and complications related to fungal meningitis. He was born on February 23, 1942, in Grand ...